Катерина

KATERYNA SHEPELEVA
Project & Program Coordinator · Event Specialist · Community Manager
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PROFILE
People-centered project professional with 5+ years of experience turning ideas into organized, delivered outcomes - across educational programs, large-scale events, and internal company processes. Skilled at building something from zero: researching a market, assembling the right people, designing the program, and coordinating everyone involved through to a visible result. Comfortable working across HR, product, and event contexts because the core skill is the same everywhere - organizing people and projects so things actually happen.
EXPERIENCE
HR Manager — Faster Than Light10.2023 – 09.2025
• Owned the full employee lifecycle as a cross-functional process - coordinating hiring managers, team leads, and leadership from vacancy to onboarding to offboarding
• Designed and delivered a soft-skills training program for employees and team leads, from content design to facilitation
• Ran regular 1:1 conversations supporting individual growth and performance, contributing to a stronger internal culture
• Built and maintained HR systems/CRM, ensuring accurate reporting used by leadership for decisions
• Managed internal communications and announcements across the company
Product Manager — Laba Group08.2022 – 08.2023
• Launched 11 educational IT courses end-to-end — market research, curriculum scoping, instructor sourcing, and go-to-market - achieving an average ROI of 250%+
• Sourced and onboarded 20+ mid-to-senior IT specialists as instructors (LinkedIn, conferences, webinars), negotiating cooperation terms individually
• Coordinated content, marketing, and instructor teams to keep multiple parallel course launches on track
• Managed project timelines and resources using Asana and Notion
Event Manager — Smileexpo07.2021 – 08.2022
• Organized and delivered 6 large-scale conferences with a combined audience of 4,000+ attendees, owning the program from concept to delivery
• Researched market and competitor trends to shape relevant, timely conference programs
• Sourced and engaged 50+ industry experts as speakers, managing relationships end-to-end
• Coordinated logistics, timelines, and stakeholder communication using Trello and Redmine
HR Manager — RBFC Global Limited06.2020 – 04.2021
• Managed full-cycle recruitment - from vacancy creation and sourcing to interviews and hiring — growing the team by 30%
• Coordinated onboarding, L&D activities, and internal administrative processes across multiple HR systems (Workable, HiBob, Hurma)
SKILLS
Project & program coordination: planning, timelines, resource & stakeholder coordination, process design
Events & programs: concept-to-delivery event management, curriculum/program curation, speaker & vendor sourcing
Community & people: relationship building, community engagement, cross-functional collaboration, onboarding design
Communication: internal comms, stakeholder updates, reporting, facilitation
Working style: clear-headed under pressure, fast at reading a situation, strong at building order from a blank page
TOOLS
Project & task management: Asana, Notion, Trello, Jira, Monday, Redmine
Comms & content: Mailchimp, Facebook Ads & content creation, Google Workspace
Docs & process: DocuSign, PandaDoc, Workable, Hurma
EDUCATION
Event Management in Business — Lviv HR Solutions, 2019–2020
Pharmaceuticals — National University "Lvivska Politechnika", 2015–2019
Video Maker Course — Rush Media
LANGUAGES
Ukrainian — Native | English — Upper-Intermediate